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i was a student at johns hopkins in 1961 and the president happened to be his brother, milton coming and he used to secretly go back and forth with the students because he met with students from time to time but the press never knew it. he was influential in the eisenhower of fenestration and for example he told us that when eisenhower got the draft about the military-industrial complex she added a congressional and it's there in his own hand but when he gave a speech she dropped congressional and asked his brother why did you do that and then he said it was enough to take on the industry. i couldn't take on the congress, too even though they were the great source of frustration years ago in terms of trying to talk sense into people about the size of the military establishment which is now totally out of control. even though i have a few things to say about obama second term because having been very disappointed by the first, i am optimistic that he has learned some lessons being as smart s he is and as reasonable as he is and disappointed with the military because of what happened i
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wonder why obama wasted time with susan rice who was not qualified if we had somebody like john kerry when he was his whole career could rise to secretary of state and check cable a wonderful nomination and the criticism of him frankly is silly. people are throwing fat around so loosely it is an embarrassment to see accusations because once he said jewish lobby instead of israeli lobby. he said that on many occasions so i understand what the debate is all about. i think it will slither away. he is a sound man with qualifications you would need. was very disappointed with obama and they betrayed us the see a director ricky-tick care of that himself taking himself out of the game giving adultery a bad day. [laughter] was obama thinking taking the active duty force toward general was strung policy positions on the key issues that officers have to grapple with? economic of a better scenario for localization to have pretorius at the cia that is now with truman had in mind when he created it he did not want in the hands of policy makers certainly not military policy-makers but it was create
wonder why obama wasted time with susan rice who was not qualified if we had somebody like john kerry when he was his whole career could rise to secretary of state and check cable a wonderful nomination and the criticism of him frankly is silly. people are throwing fat around so loosely it is an embarrassment to see accusations because once he said jewish lobby instead of israeli lobby. he said that on many occasions so i understand what the debate is all about. i think it will slither away. he...
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john pepper. dr. kraft received a ph.d. in clinical psychology in 1996. daring her psychology internship at drake medical center she joined the navy as an in-flight specialist and clinical psychologist. in february of 2004 when her twin working months old she was deployed in iraq for seven months with a marine surgical unit. her book, rule number 2, is about her experience in iraq. today she is a consultant for the navy and the marines post-traumatic stress disorder treatment programs, please welcome dr. heidi squier kraft. [applause] >> good morning. so i have been doing a fair amount of speaking over the last few years and i have to say i am quite certain this is my first talk in which the vice president warmed up the audience for me. it may not be the last but it is the first and i wish he was here to hear me say that and and respectfully say thank you, sir, for such a good job. it is an honor to be with you today. how many veterans of the country's military do we have in the audience today? thank you very much for your service. [applause] >> i was sha
john pepper. dr. kraft received a ph.d. in clinical psychology in 1996. daring her psychology internship at drake medical center she joined the navy as an in-flight specialist and clinical psychologist. in february of 2004 when her twin working months old she was deployed in iraq for seven months with a marine surgical unit. her book, rule number 2, is about her experience in iraq. today she is a consultant for the navy and the marines post-traumatic stress disorder treatment programs, please...
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chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the time once said real men don't do -- and yet the real men that john was surrounding himself with head and it felt like a war to them. they called them the other than war wars of the 90s. they were wars. in the meantime the main character david petraeus who is one of the few people in the book that most people of heard of, and would later become a protÉge of petraeus graduated from west point in 1974, one of his first exercises and one of his first assignments was to go join up with airborne battalions in france and italy. while he was there he came across some books that were about counterinsurgency warfare and again petraeus hadn't studied any of this at west point either. but he is reading this books and especially a book by a retired french colonel named david kahlÚa called counterinsurgency warfare and he comes across some ideas that he had never crossed in any book he had read. for example these kinds of wars are only 20% military and 80% political. they are battles for the hearts and minds of the people. in these kinds of wars a mimeograph mac
chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the time once said real men don't do -- and yet the real men that john was surrounding himself with head and it felt like a war to them. they called them the other than war wars of the 90s. they were wars. in the meantime the main character david petraeus who is one of the few people in the book that most people of heard of, and would later become a protÉge of petraeus graduated from west point in 1974, one of his first exercises and one of his first...
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we found that we have all this and is john maynard keynes once said, when the facts change i change my mind. what do you do? well, the facts have changed. >> fred kaplan talks about how general portrays and his advisers transformed the u.s. military to fight future small wars against insurgents and terrorists. watch him for them for the next hour here on booktv. [applause] >> thank you. thanks for coming out. i write a column called war stories. the word wars in the subtitle of my luck but if you have read any of my things you will know i really don't write about the war. i don't write battle scenes. i am not one of these reporters who just aches to get back into some more theme where i can get shot at. i do admire those who do but it's just not what i do. what i'm interested in doing is policy and ideas and where do these ideas come from? they don't just drop from the sky. they usually do not automatically appeal to everybody as a matter of logic. where did the ideas come from? who were the people and there were a lot of comp eating ideas. how did this particular set of idea
we found that we have all this and is john maynard keynes once said, when the facts change i change my mind. what do you do? well, the facts have changed. >> fred kaplan talks about how general portrays and his advisers transformed the u.s. military to fight future small wars against insurgents and terrorists. watch him for them for the next hour here on booktv. [applause] >> thank you. thanks for coming out. i write a column called war stories. the word wars in the...
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john's biography of thomas jefferson is ninth. and no. 10 adam's and larry alexander tell the story of an american and german pilot flighting over germany in 1964 with a "higher call" for more go to ny times.com and click on arts. you were able to see the fraternity rates declining. by the time we hit the second world war we are right around the replacement rate. and immediately after the -- second world war we had the only major of increase in the fertility rate. that's the baby boom. everybody knows about that. everybody, you know, that's a term which -- and it was a remarkable moment. not only did the fertility rate increase quite high, you know, 3.7, i think. for white americans and 3.9 for black americans. not only did it jump up. it stayed up for an entire generation. it was a long lasting effect. people changed the way they lived for a generation. by 1970, that momentum, that moment had ended. and we saw not a gradual float down but dropping off a cliff. >> changing demographic and birthrate could cause the u.s. to lose a p
john's biography of thomas jefferson is ninth. and no. 10 adam's and larry alexander tell the story of an american and german pilot flighting over germany in 1964 with a "higher call" for more go to ny times.com and click on arts. you were able to see the fraternity rates declining. by the time we hit the second world war we are right around the replacement rate. and immediately after the -- second world war we had the only major of increase in the fertility rate. that's the baby...
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[applause] >> thank you john for your very kind introduction and the invitation to speak at the heritage foundation today. it's a great privilege to be here. i have always been a great admirer of heritage and the council and in many cases the friendship of many people here at heritage for a very long time i have also admired the way that heritage works across policy areas so that you really do here and integrated message. not least among which i think is the intention of the heritage foundation to the power of culture, by which i mean people believe ideas, habits and expectations in the way that these achieve some form of institutional expression. this issue of culture and how it relates to the economy is at the heart of my book, "becoming europe" because at one level becoming europe is certainly about what has happened in europe and why it is now regarded as the sick man of the global economy. my book is also about how some of these cultural and economic trends are starting to manifest themselves in the united states, particularly over the past five years. and in some respects i think i
[applause] >> thank you john for your very kind introduction and the invitation to speak at the heritage foundation today. it's a great privilege to be here. i have always been a great admirer of heritage and the council and in many cases the friendship of many people here at heritage for a very long time i have also admired the way that heritage works across policy areas so that you really do here and integrated message. not least among which i think is the intention of the heritage...
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and i come into this major, young lieutenant named john who was three years at west point. he's leading a tank platoon in iraq. he just got at west point as i said, one of the top students. he chose to go into the armor corps because the big war that the army is preparing for was going to be united states versus soviet union on the plains of your. he even studied german at west point. he got fluent in the link which because that's where he would be spending most of his career. so on the plane to iraq. you might remember, we did a months worth of bombing, and then a mere four days of ground operation, and just completely destroyed the iraqi military. so there he is, looking around at the end of this, he's realizing we just destroyed the fourth, the world's fourth largest tank army in four days. a few months before this, the soviet union went up in smoke. the cold war is over. and he's thinking what am i going to be doing the rest of my life? what is the army going to be doing the rest of my life? he came with the idea that nobody is really ever going to challenge the united
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. >> i think the book that ed mentioned by john whitt on lincoln's code speaks directly to the question you're asking. one of the points that book is making is that in order to find -- to embed emancipation in the laws of war to justify it, lieber and the lincoln had to expand the powers of the union army in it attack on civilians. you have to broaden the definition of military necessity to include going on to plantations and taking what the southerners viewed as -- nonmilitary homes and farms in the south, and the paradox for which is that to get emancipation legalized, you had to expand the parameters of were in ways we may not like. >> there's another indirect result. the emancipation proclamation calling for enlistment of african-american soldiers stopped the confederacy of exchange prisoners, and in the hard wars you would see a skyrocketing of death and andersonville because of the lack of exchange directly as a result of that policy. >> thank you. >> because we have so many historians on the same stage, a bigger pick picture question in the course of doing your research and writi
. >> i think the book that ed mentioned by john whitt on lincoln's code speaks directly to the question you're asking. one of the points that book is making is that in order to find -- to embed emancipation in the laws of war to justify it, lieber and the lincoln had to expand the powers of the union army in it attack on civilians. you have to broaden the definition of military necessity to include going on to plantations and taking what the southerners viewed as -- nonmilitary homes and...
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i was a student in 1961 and the president of john hopkins having to be his brother. he met with students from time to time. but the press never known. he was very influential in the eisenhower administration. and he told us that when eisenhower got the draft about the military-industrial complex, it is there in his own hands in the draft of the speech. and he said it was enough to take on military industry even though it was the congress street source of frustration in terms of trying to talk sense to people about the size of the military establishment. which is not totally out of control. even though i have a few things to say about obama second term because having been very disappointed by the first term, i'm somewhat optimistic that he has learned lessons. being as smart as he is and as reasonable as he is and due to what happened in afghanistan and what he experience and terms of the search. i expect different things to happen, but i will get to that in a minute. the other thing that he did that was important in this frame would be the speech of the cost of arms
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i told john mccain about this last week. he is a very dear friend. if you are elected president and he could be, you will not be able to govern this country until you deal with iraq, start unwinding this and getting us out. it is so bitter and so deep and so dividing our country won't be able to govern. won't get a democratic congress -- will there be less democrats in congress come november? i doubt it. he accepted that.
i told john mccain about this last week. he is a very dear friend. if you are elected president and he could be, you will not be able to govern this country until you deal with iraq, start unwinding this and getting us out. it is so bitter and so deep and so dividing our country won't be able to govern. won't get a democratic congress -- will there be less democrats in congress come november? i doubt it. he accepted that.
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mitch mcconnell said to the press, july 2010, he confirmed the next day that what john -- senator john kyl said a few days earlier was accurate. mcconnell said there's no evidence whatsoever that the bush tax cuts actually dim minimum issued revenue. they increased revenue because of the vibe bran si of the tax cuts and the economy. so i think what senator kyl was expressing was the view of virtually every republican on that subject. and i would say, as they say here, this is no kind word for -- you can say in response to this. they're making this up. they have to be making this up. but do they believe it? i think they do. i mean, the truth is, i think they do. i think one of the things in the last two chapters i spent some time with is a lot of the recent research about how we think or don't think about religion and politics, and how so many of the views that we believe are carefully roped -- reasoned and thought out, are grounded in deeper attitudes, deeper values, deeper life experience-what i call world views, that really shape our more specific beliefs both in religion and in poli
mitch mcconnell said to the press, july 2010, he confirmed the next day that what john -- senator john kyl said a few days earlier was accurate. mcconnell said there's no evidence whatsoever that the bush tax cuts actually dim minimum issued revenue. they increased revenue because of the vibe bran si of the tax cuts and the economy. so i think what senator kyl was expressing was the view of virtually every republican on that subject. and i would say, as they say here, this is no kind word for...
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number four, bill o'reilly and martin dugard recount the assassination of president john f. kennedy in "killing kennedy." the book is in its t 16th week on the list. mark owen's "no easy day" is fifth followed by bill o'reilly and martin dugard's second appearance on the list with "killing lincoln." seventh, the book of fraternity humor, total frat move. it's the book's first week on the bestseller list. eighth, the personal transformations of six people in the book "ten years later." pulitzer prize-winning journalist jon meacham's biography of thomas jefferson is ninth, and at number ten, larry alexander tells the story of an american and german pilot flying over germany in 1943 with "a higher call." for more on these bestsellers and more, go to ny times.com and click on arts.
number four, bill o'reilly and martin dugard recount the assassination of president john f. kennedy in "killing kennedy." the book is in its t 16th week on the list. mark owen's "no easy day" is fifth followed by bill o'reilly and martin dugard's second appearance on the list with "killing lincoln." seventh, the book of fraternity humor, total frat move. it's the book's first week on the bestseller list. eighth, the personal transformations of six people in the...
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night because we had been looking for him, we would find out from what we got on that target about john doe we might hit that at midnight and it another at 3:00 in the morning and the reason it was important to go fast was terrorist networks repair themselves very quickly. as soon as if we were terrorists as soon as mark is captured pretty soon i am going to hear about it and the first i do is move my location and change all those connections we have and call it cut outs and moved to repair is also you got to be quicker than they can repair themselves and quicker than they can promote new people to develop new leaders and overtime with started seeing the relative age of leaders of al qaeda and iraq go down. .. moves intelligence analysts up into your base, integrating everything up front. can you talk about that and the role that technology plate. >> there are several things and technology that change of a fight. one is obvious, predators' commend it was not strikes but surveillance because you put a surveillance that gives you full motion video meeting anywhere in are forced to include
night because we had been looking for him, we would find out from what we got on that target about john doe we might hit that at midnight and it another at 3:00 in the morning and the reason it was important to go fast was terrorist networks repair themselves very quickly. as soon as if we were terrorists as soon as mark is captured pretty soon i am going to hear about it and the first i do is move my location and change all those connections we have and call it cut outs and moved to repair is...
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as john mentioned, i'm a special forces officer by profession, and so this area is near and dear to my heart because this is kind of what we do, or did. they don't let me do it anymore. [laughter] i mentioned to max when he came in a little historical artifact in that when i was a cadet at west point, i bought a book that had just been published. it was a two-volume set. it was called "war in the shadows: the guerrilla in history" by robert asprey. that book from 1975 til now really has been the sort of benchmark for this kind of historical review of this subject area. that's a long time for a book to keep that sort of position. well, with apologies to mr. asprey, i think his book is being replaced now, and max has done that with this book which is on sale outside, "invisible armies." he, i think, has set the new benchmark for this subject area. his book is very, very comprehensive, but -- and it's somewhat chronological but not entirely. and it's somewhat regional but not entirely, and it's somewhat not functional is the right word, but topical but not entirely. that sounds like it's
as john mentioned, i'm a special forces officer by profession, and so this area is near and dear to my heart because this is kind of what we do, or did. they don't let me do it anymore. [laughter] i mentioned to max when he came in a little historical artifact in that when i was a cadet at west point, i bought a book that had just been published. it was a two-volume set. it was called "war in the shadows: the guerrilla in history" by robert asprey. that book from 1975 til now really...
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topographical corey sent an expedition under john c. fremont to its where the last, they needed a guide in your life is not meant as a less better than anyone. courson acquitted himself very well on this anyone. courson acquitted himself very well on this expedition. he saved many people esiason kept the expedition on track so he became in fremont's report, which became best-selling books, carson becomes a hero in the stories. but no one could seem to find this guy because he was living in new mexico and was never coming back east. said he was this mythic character that people wanted to know more about. so when the "blood and thunder" books became more famous and popular, kit carson is often the central character in the story. authors becky's throughout this terrible stories, i would tear you to read them actually. they're not good in terms of literature, that these authors never made any attempt to understand who the real kit carson was. they didn't take him to use his name. kit carson did not make any money off these folks. he hated t
topographical corey sent an expedition under john c. fremont to its where the last, they needed a guide in your life is not meant as a less better than anyone. courson acquitted himself very well on this anyone. courson acquitted himself very well on this expedition. he saved many people esiason kept the expedition on track so he became in fremont's report, which became best-selling books, carson becomes a hero in the stories. but no one could seem to find this guy because he was living in new...
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actually, in 1960s, john f. kennedy signed a bill that gave control of the house to the partner of interior, and then the early 1970s, frederick douglass' national historic site opened. it's a flag ship site of the national park service. it has over about 40,000 to 50,000 visitors every year. it sits high up on a hill from the top of cedar hill. you can see the washington monument to the left, the u.s. capitol dome to the right. it's really an amazing majestic view, and it's open seven days a week, and the curator of the douglass house contributed a forward to that. that was important to me, just to try to make the book not just kind of -- make it active living history so people read the book, and if they've never been to the douglass house, oh, i want to go there, and if they have not been there for years, oh, i have to go back and revisit mr. douglass. >> the curator at the douglass house wrote the forward.
actually, in 1960s, john f. kennedy signed a bill that gave control of the house to the partner of interior, and then the early 1970s, frederick douglass' national historic site opened. it's a flag ship site of the national park service. it has over about 40,000 to 50,000 visitors every year. it sits high up on a hill from the top of cedar hill. you can see the washington monument to the left, the u.s. capitol dome to the right. it's really an amazing majestic view, and it's open seven days a...
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. >> the book mentioned by john whitcomb of code speaks directly to the question you're asking. one of the points that the peacemaking is that in order to find, to embed emancipation and the loss of board, to justify it, lieber and the lincoln administration had to expand the powers of the union on the army in its attack on civilians. you have to broaden the definition of military necessity to include going on to plantations and taken with the southerners due to their property away from them, but nonmilitary homes and farms in the south. the paradox is to get emancipation legalize, you have to expand the parameters of war in ways that we may not like. >> there's another indirect result. emancipation proclamation calls for the enlistment of african-american soldiers stops the confederacy from exchanging prisoners and see you would've seen a set of skyrocketing of death in andersonville because of the lack of exchange directly as a result of that policy. >> thank you. >> because it got so many historians on the same stage of got a bigger picture question. if possible i would like
. >> the book mentioned by john whitcomb of code speaks directly to the question you're asking. one of the points that the peacemaking is that in order to find, to embed emancipation and the loss of board, to justify it, lieber and the lincoln administration had to expand the powers of the union on the army in its attack on civilians. you have to broaden the definition of military necessity to include going on to plantations and taken with the southerners due to their property away from...
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what john bose. millennium john's account. that was one of the more creative things we have done. it is bigger than that. until we get a president that does that, then is able to implement, by the way in partnership with the congress, doesn't mean the congress has to agree with everything but you can't treat article i of the constitution like it is an appendix, like it is a nuisance. if for no other reason you can't sustain a foreign-policy, you can't sustain a war, the people of america, 70% consistently are gone in iraq. you can prove or disprove that. those are not my numbers. it is over. it is over like it is a matter of how we get out now. you have got to have a policy that the american people understand, make sense for the country and will sustain. that requires partnership. >> thank you very much. appreciate your time. [applause] >> thank you all for coming out tonight. appreciate it. [inaudible conversations] >> tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. you can tweet us at booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail, booktv, and nonfiction bo
what john bose. millennium john's account. that was one of the more creative things we have done. it is bigger than that. until we get a president that does that, then is able to implement, by the way in partnership with the congress, doesn't mean the congress has to agree with everything but you can't treat article i of the constitution like it is an appendix, like it is a nuisance. if for no other reason you can't sustain a foreign-policy, you can't sustain a war, the people of america, 70%...